History Politics Quotes

“There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“...How many would like to get out of this world at the cheapest price?”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.”
― Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

“Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!”
― Daniel Webster, The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union: Selected Documents

“History doesn't remember gardens.
…
You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.”
― Andrew Ashling

“It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng and his security. If such a nonentity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that is absurd.”
― Norman Mailer

“Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no matter how inherently contradictory they may be and these inspirations were governed by extreme contempt and underestimation of the others.”
― Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

“As I see it today, Hitler and Goebbels were in fact molded by the mob itself, guided by its yearnings and its daydreams. Of course, Goebbels and Hitler knew how to penetrate through to the instincts of their audiences; but in the deeper sense they derived their whole existence from these audiences. Certainly the masses roared to the beat set by Hitler's and Goebbels' baton; yet they were not the true conductors. The mob determined the theme. To compensate for misery, insecurity, unemployment, and hopelessness, this anonymous assemblage wallowed for hours at a time in obsessions, savagery and license. The personal unhappiness caused by the breakdown of the economy was replaced by a frenzy that demanded victims. By lashing out at their opponents and vilifying the Jews, they gave expression and direction to fierce primal passions.”
― Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

“Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically”
― Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

“The communications apparatus at headquarters was remarkable...It was possible to communicate directly with all important theaters of the war...They could be directed from Hitler's table in the situation room. The more fearful the situation, the greater was the gulf modern technology created between reality and fantasies with which the man at this table operated.”
― Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

“We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of reclaiming the soul and saving the honor of the country. We, the most hated, must take hate into our hands and by the miracle of love, turn loathing into love. We, the most feared and apprehensive must take fear and by love, change it into hope. We, who die daily in large and small ways, must take the demon death and turn it into life.-Martin Luther King Jr.”
― Maya Angelou

“The sun don't shine on the same dog's tail all the time; either the sun moves or the dog moves!”
― Murray M. Silver

“But you didn’t mention Orrigar I, the first king of the House of Chaldarina. He put an end to years of unrest and civil strife. Neither did you mention Ronnick II, the one who reformed the monetary system and forbade the Great Houses to mint their own coins, thus stabilizing our currency. At the time it saved Ximerion from going bankrupt.”
“I’m sorry. I told you we weren’t big—”
“It’s not that, Hemarchidas. You remembered the fighting kings, those who brought war, destruction and ephemeral glory. Or those who ended tragically. You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.”
Hemarchidas looked at his friend as if he saw him for the first time.
“So, all in all, Hemarchidas, I’d rather history forgot me.”
― Andrew Ashling

“Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women?”
― Joy Hakim, A History of US: From Colonies to Country 1735-1791

“Is history repeating itself? Not really, we are the ones repeating history.”
― Ambeth R. Ocampo

“To understand Putin, you must understand Russian history.
To understand Zelensky, you must understand Ukraine history.”
― Roman Abramović, Ukraine and Russia History: The Secrets About Ukraine and Russia History the Government Is Hiding

“Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests.”
― Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History

“uff! dikhao. Shrutikitaab kheenchti hai.
Hamara Pramanik Itihaas. Cover par ishtihaar ke taur par kavitanuma panktiyan hain. Yon:

"Islam kee buniyaad pe yah desh Hindustaan mit raha hai.
Aa hee jaayega ek din yahan Islam ka dastoor.
Ho jaayenge ek din yahan se hindu Kafir kafoor
Bandhuon chet jao.""

"Bhari-poori Industry chal rahi hai." Shrutiab kitaab pakde hai.
"Ekdum se to yeh Industry nahin ban gayee. Hum kahan the, jab yah ban rahee thee?"Hanif poochta hai.


Uff, show... Shruti snatches the book: "Our Proven History."

On the cover, by way of advertisement, are lines of a rhyme.
"Foundation of Islam is wiping out Hindustan
One day they will take over
And Kafir Hindus thrown out
Wake up Brothers"

"This is a full-fledged industry," Shruti holds the book.
" This industry did not come up just now. Where were we, when it was being put up?" Hanif asks.”
― Geetanjali Shree, हमारा शहर उस बरस

“[...]demokrasi bir sistem değildir. Bir kültürdür. Alışkanlık, uzun süredir var olan güç ayrımları, hukuka olan inanç ve yolsuzluk ile kinikliğin olmadığı bir sisteme dayanır. Bu sistemi ithal edip, kurabilir, sonra da çalıştırabilirsiniz. Ama bir kültürü ithal edemezsiniz. Bu, dünyanın çoğunun tiranlar veya kleptokrasiler altında yaşamaya mahkûm olduğu anlamına gelmiyor. Bu, sadece demokratların oyunun sonunu duyurmaları için biraz erken olduğu demek.”
― Andrew Marr, A History of the World

“All human history he knew was a lie.”
― Bert-Oliver Boehmer, Three Immortals

“History favors the intrepid.”
― Lee Lockwood, Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel

“Idézet:

"És imbolyogtam az élet hullámain:
szerelemből gyűlöletbe, gyűlöletből erőltetett szerelembe."


Эпиграф:

"И качалась я на волнах жизни:
от любви к ненависти, от ненависти к вымученной любви.”
― Angelika Regossi, Magyarul mint Oroszul: 1000 szó magyarázattal - ПО–ВЕНГЕРСКИ КАК ПО–РУССКИ: 1000 с л о в с пояснениями

“Death was dressed like you, talked like you, acted like you, and was just waiting for you to make one mistake and the heavens would open, and death would rain down on you.”
― Andrew Balaam, Skuzapo: The untold story

“A state/country based on freedom, equality and fraternity is not only possible but inevitable in the long run.”
― Tayyib Ahmad Tayyib, The Ideal State: A Model Based on Analysis of Savagery, Feudalism, Capitalism and Beyond

“He [Adams] wakened for a brief moment, indicated that nothing more should be done to prolong the inevitable, then, with obvious effort, gave a final salute to his old friend with his last words: "Thomas Jefferson survives," or, by another account, "Thomas Jefferson still lives." Whatever the version, he was wrong for the moment but right for the ages.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

“. . . the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton . . . is the only occasion within the revolutionary generation when political differences ended in violence and death rather than in ongoing argument.”
― Joseph Ellis

“Sometimes power wears a crown. Sometimes it just carries a really weird grudge.”
― Barbora Jirincova, Slavic Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilization

“A função de governar é das mais tristes que se pode ter à face da terra.”
― D. Fernando II